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  • Freedomville

    The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

    de Laura T. Murphy ...
    A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar—Freedomville—after staging a rebellion against ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

    de Laura T. Murphy ...
    Series series Western African Studies
    Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation.Laura T. ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

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    Freedomville

    The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

    de Laura T. Murphy ...
    Narrado por Reena Dutt ...
    Series series Columbia Global Reports

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    3 hora 7 minutos

    How do Enslaved People Today Win (and Sometimes Lose) their Freedom?A community of rock quarry miners in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India gave their tiny cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. But it hasn't always been identified by that auspicious moniker. The miners renamed their village in 2000, after they staged a revolt that overthrew the profit-driven ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • The End of Karma

    Hope and Fury Among India's Young

    de Somini Sengupta ...
    “[A] sharply observed study . . . richly detailed portraits.”—EconomistSomini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility—at least by the illusion of possibility—as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The ... Leer más

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  • Kathmandu Dilemma

    Resetting India-Nepal Ties

    de Ranjit Rae ...
    ''...unmatched in its meticulous and careful research into the wellsprings of a truly unique relationship between two neighbouring states.'' SHYAM SARAN ''Ranjit Rae''s portrayal of India-Nepal relations from the Indian perspective is meticulous, nuanced and insightful." S.D. MUNI ''Ranjit Rae breaks down the paradox of India''s very intimate yet troubled relationship with Nepal.'' C. RAJA MOHAN ... Leer más

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  • India Is Broken

    A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

    de Ashoka Mody ...
    A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of national unity and secular democracy. Through the first half century of nation-building, leaders could point to uneven but measurable progress on ... Leer más

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  • Karma Of Brown Folk

    de Vijay Prashad ...
    **Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!**“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians “How does it feel to be a solution?” In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced ... Leer más

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  • Leaving India

    My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents

    de Minal Hajratwala ...
    The PEN Award–winning chronicle of the Indian diaspora told through the stories of the author's own family.In this "rich, entertaining and illuminating story," Minal Hajratwala mixes history, memoir, and reportage to explore the collisions of choice and history that led her family to emigrate from India ( San Francisco Chronicle). "Meticulously researched and evocatively written" ( The Washington ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fall and Rise of Telangana

    de Gautam Pingle ...
    Post Independence, the state of Andhra Pradesh was created by merging the Telangana region, a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, with the coastal region of Andhra and Rayalaseema—both parts of the erstwhile Madras state. With Madras, the major source of income of the state, allocated to Tamil Nadu, it was necessary to include the revenue-surplus Telangana to create a financially viable ... Leer más

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  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    de Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Leer más

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  • Modern India

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture ... Leer más

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  • To Kill A Democracy

    India's Passage to Despotism

    de Debasish Roy Chowdhury, John Keane ...
    India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD